Drawer or unit for filing-cabinets.



WILLIAM '1. CHEDESTER, 0F FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

- DRAWER OR UNIT FOR FILING GAIBINETS.

Specification of'Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1911.

Application filed June 5, 1911. Serial No. 631,317.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. Canons- TER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State ofTexas, have invented a new and useful Drawer or Unit forFiling-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in filing cabinets, cases, etc.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction offilin cabinets, and to equip the same with a simp e, eflicient andcomparatively inexpensive relatively thin slide or drawer, designedparticularly for card systems, and adapted to hold cards and similarmaterial, and capable of exposing a portion of each of the cards,whereby a particular card may be quickly and easily found.

A further object of the invention is to provide a card holdin drawer orslide of this character, equippe at both the top and bottom with cardholding means, whereby the capacity of the drawer or slide is doubled.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claimshereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings :--Figure 1 is aperspective view of one of the drawersor slides.

' drawings.

longitudinal tonguesB, whichfit' in opposite Fig.2 is a transversesectional view of a portion of the filing cabinet. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal'sectional view of a portion of the filing cabinet.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the In the accompanying drawings in which is illustrated thepreferred embodiment of the invent-ion, l'des'ignates a filing cabinethaving horizontally arranged drawersflor slides 2,. provided atoppositesides with ooves 4 in the walls and partitions of the lingcabinet The filing cabinet may be of, any preferred form and thehorizontal slides or drawers, which are disposed in vertical series, arepreferably located directly above oneanother' without any interveningparting strip or partition. v

Each of the drawers or slides consists of an open oblong frame,preferably constructed of wood, but they may be made of any othersuitable material, as will be readily understood. Thesides of the openframeof the drawers are provided at their inner faces with centrallongitudinal grooves 5 for the reception of a central longitudinalsupport 6, constructed of sheet metal or other suitable material andzig-zagly bent between its ends to provide upper and lower pockets 7located at the upper and lower faces of the support 6 and formed byalternate long and short inclined walls 8 and 9. The long inclined walls8 are arranged in spaced overlapping relation, and the short inclinedwalls 9 connect the adjacent overlapped edges or portions of the longinclined walls 8. By this construction, the reversely arranged u per andlower pockets are formed, and the slldable drawer is reversible, and inreversing it, it is adapted to be turned end for end to bring either setor series of pockets to the top, and it is provided at each end with aknob 10, or other form of handle, and it is designed to be indexed at'each end. The support is also provided with smooth fiat terminalportions 11. The folds or bends .of the support are arrangedtransversely of the drawer or slide and extend entirely across theframe, and the support is fitted at its side edges in the side grooves,and the endedges 12 of the support are embedded in grooves or kerfs inthe inner faces of the end bars or. pieces of the frame of the drawer atthe upper and lower faces of the same and connected with the'sides ofthe. frame of the drawer by meansof suitable hinges 14, which permit thestrips to swing upwardly and outwardly. The frame of the slide or draweris provided at its upper and lower edges with inner longitudinalrecesses 15, which are preferably extended across the ends of the frame.The outer leaves of the hinges are secured to the bottom of therecesses, and are located below the upper edges of the frame of thedrawer and above the lower edges of the same. The hinged card retainingstrips or members are locked in engagement with the cards by means ofpivoted buttons 16, or other suitable means, mounted in the longitudinalrecesses 15 and located between the upper and lower edges of the frame.When thehinged card retaining strips are open ready access is had to thecontents of the drawer, and as a portion of each of the cards containedtherein is exposed, the card retaining strips are arranged in flushrelation with the bottom of the recesses 15, and they are constructed ofsheet metal, or other suitable material and may be hinged to the frameof the slide or drawer in any preferred manner.

Inpractice the side and end bars of the frame of the drawer will bepreferably one inch in height, so that a relatively thin drawer isprovided. This will enable a large number of drawers to be mounted in acomparatively small space.

As the slides or drawers are equipped at their upper and lower faceswith'card holding means, their capacity is not only increased but theywill greatly expedite the filing and examining of cards or other matter.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure'by Letters Patent, is c 1. A device of the class describedcomprising a relatively thin drawer provided at its upper and lowerfaces with pockets adapted to hold the cards, etc., and means I alsolocated at the upper and lower faces of the drawer for retaining thecards in the pockets, said drawer being reversible to arrange either ofthe said pockets at the top.

2. A device of the class described comrising a drawer provided at itsupper and ower faces with a longitudinal series of pockets adapted toreceive cards and the like and to expose a portion of each of the cards,and spaced means arranged at the top and bottom of the drawer forretaining the cards in the pockets.

3. A device of the class described comprising a drawer provided at itsupper and lower faces with a longitudinal series of transverselydisposed pockets adapted to receive cards and the like, and retainingstrips hinged to the drawer at opposite sides thereof and located at theupper and lower faces of the same and arranged to retain the contents ofthe pockets in the drawer.

4. A device of the class described comprising a drawer provided with alongitudinal series of transversely disposed pockets adapted to receivecards and the like, and hinged strips arranged to engage the cards forretaining the same in the pockets and adapted to swing outwardly toafford access to the cards.

5. A device of the class described comprising a drawer provided with alongitudinal series of transversely disposed pockets adapted to receivecards and the like, longi tudinal card retaining strips hinged to thedrawer at opposite sides thereof and arranged to swing inward over thepockets to engage the contents thereof, and means for locking the saidstrips in their engaging position.

6. A device of the class described comprising a drawer including an openframe, a support constructed of sheet metal provided with substantiallyzig-zag folds forming upper and lower transversely disposed pockets, andmeans for retaining cards and the like in the upper and lower pockets.

7 A device of the class described comprising a drawerincluding an openframe,

a support constructed of sheet metal provided with substantially zig-zagfolds forming upper and lower transversely disposed pockets, saidsupport being provided with smooth flat terminal portions, and means forretaining cards and the like in the upper and lower pockets.

8. A device of the class described comprising a drawer including an openframe provided at opposite sides with central longitudinal grooves andhaving upper and lower longitudinal recesses, a support mounted in thecentral grooves and provided with upper and lower pockets, andlongitudinal strips hinged at the said recesses and arranged to projectover the pockets to retain the contents therein.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaflixed' my signa-' ture in the presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM T. CHEDESTER.

Witnesses:

ROBERT E. ARMSTRONG, T. J. BROWN.

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